have been his second Cup, seeing as it would have been at the expense of a team decimated by illness. Seattle lost in the Stanley Cup finals the next year against the Ottawa Senators. Muldoon returned to the Rosebuds after the Metropolitans folded in the spring of 1924. He followed most of his players to the National Hockey League when most of the Rosebuds were sold to Major Frederic McLaughlin to start the Chicago Black Hawks. He accepted the position because his wife Dorothy was a Chicago native and pregnant with the family's second child. After the Black Hawks ended the 1926–27 season with a playoff berth after finishing in third place in the American Division with a 19–22–3 record, he resigned because of constant meddling from McLaughlin. Muldoon returned to Seattle and became involved in efforts to bring a professional team back to the city, as a new arena was constructed in 1928. Muldoon, with the help of a group of investors, established the Seattle Ice Skating and Hockey Association, while aiding to establish the PCHL. This new league had its first season in 1928, and the Seattle team was dubbed the Seattle Eskimos. Death In the spring of 1929, Muldoon went to Tacoma, Washington, with co-owner and local boxing promoter Nate Druxman to search for a location to build a new rink in order to establish a team. While in Tacoma, on March 13, 1929, Muldoon died from a heart attack. Without their coach, the Seattle Eskimos were able to win a playoff series against Portland before losing to Vancouver in the league finals. The following season the Eskimos established the Pete Muldoon Trophy, presented to the player "deemed most inspirational by his teammates". It was awarded for a few seasons and disappeared from records during the Great Depression years. Legacy Journalist Jim Coleman ascribed the Black Hawks' "Curse of Muldoon" to the former coach. The team's owner reportedly felt that the team should have won the American Division in their first season. He fired Muldoon when the coach disagreed. Coleman wrote that Muldoon placed an Irish curse on the Hawks, saying, "Fire me, Major, and you'll never finish first. I'll put a curse on this team that will hoodoo it until the end of time." The Hawks would not finish first in any format (despite winning three Stanley Cups) until 1966–67, their 41st year in the league.